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//~L ~~,~a,, of , ~ a , .. ?I - ~,.i. ,-2 T 7 . - (4,"' ' ,','-' ~' '",t l ' - i :2 4 / ::,-• • 4 . IV e " ,• T-,.,‘ ~„ - ~~~~ . .=c • GENERAL POST OFFICE, octopi'', 18,8. THE MAILS for MEXICO, which have hitherto been forwarded by the JAMAICA PACKET on the First Wednesday in tLe Month, will in future be made up at this Office on the THIRD WEDNESDAY in each MONTH, to be despatched by PACKET from FALMOUTH. An additional MAIL for JAMAICA will be forwarded by the MEXICAN PACKET, which will leave a BAG of LETTERS at St. DO MINGO on her outward passage, and touch at HAVANNAH on her return. The postage upon letters for Mexico, St. Domingo, and Havannah.must be paid in this country. No letters for the Leeward Islands or Colombia, can be for• warded by this packet. The.first Mail under this arrangement will be made up on Wednesday the 18th inst. By command, F. FREELING, Secretary. KATHARINE'S DOCKS.—NOTICE is S hereby given, that by virtue of a Resolution of the BOARD of DIRECTORS of the ST. KATHARINE DOCK COM- P P ANY, the S u b scr ib ers are requ i red to make a payment of TEN ER. CENT. on the amount of their respective Subscriptions, to %mat CARR GLYNN, Esq., Treasurer to the Dock Company, at the Banking -house of Messrs. Glynn, Mills, Hallifax and Co. No, 67, Losabard-street, on Tuesday, the 14th day of Novem ber next. By the 9th section of 6th Geo. IV., cap. 105, no sale or trans fer of Stock can take place after a call, until the amount of the call upon such Stock. shall have been paid. JOHN HALL, Secretary. St. Katharine Dock Office, Oct. 13, 1826. KB. For the personal convenience of the Subscribers, the Trea!urer will receive the amount of such call any day on or be- Wiser' the Ath and 14th day of November nett. FOREIGN LOTTERIES, PRIVATE LOTTERIES, LITTLE GOES, and RAFFLES. Lottery O ffi ce, Somerset-place, July 19, 1826. LOTTERIES being finally to cease tin the 18th thw of October next, Notice is hereby given, that the 44 " 144 11°4 the Sale, or advertizing for Sale, of Foreign Lottery Ticket * , 1;4 of an Y Lottery Tickets not authorized by Parliament, and against Little G oes and Private Lotteries, will be strictly enforced. It is requested that the outstanding Prises may be brought in for payment with the least possible delay,_ that the Lottery Ac count* maybe closed. Numbers of Ti c k ets and Shares may b e reg i stere d , and the i r 1414. may be ascertained by application at this Office. L. HESSE. DRAWING OF THE LOTTERY. October 13, 1826. WHEREAS it is maliciously asserted by an Anonymous Correspondent in the MORNING CHRONICLE of Tans DAY, that application would be made to the Lords of the Tretsury for a further Postponement of the Lottery. The Public P; most UNEQUIVOCALLY and POSITIVELY assured by the Con tractors that no such application has been or is intended to be *lade, but, on the contrary, it is ABSOLUTELY and INEVITABLY deterrnined by Government that this Last of Lotteries shall, will, lad Must be decided, NEXT WEDNESDAY the 18th inst. FINISH OF LOTTERIES. SWIFT and Co. respectfully inform the Public, I.ottarthat thelast and only remaini ng D a y o f D raw i ng t h e S tate y WEDNESDAY Next, the 18th of THIS MONTH, when SIX Prises of 80,0001., and a ll th e o th er C ap i ta l s i n t h e Scheme, w ill be determined. Every Ticket will receive 51. inde- Pendent of any sum to which it may be entitled. In the last Lot ter,' contaiiung 90,000/. Prises, SWIFT and Co. sold TWO out °f Foul, of them, at their Offices, 11, Poultry ; 1, Strand ; and 81, Aldgate h t ttg -s ree . THE' VERY LAST OF ALL LOTTERIES, NEXT WEDNESDAY. • AZ ARD and Co., Contractors, most posi tively assure the Public, that this is the Last and only "PPortunity of Gaining a Fortune by the Lottery. HAZARD and Co. having been eminently successful in selling "pitals of Thirty Thousand Pounds, feel a pleasing confidence in r setentnending this Last and Only Scheme to Public Notice, as it "maim the unprecedented Number of SIX PRIZES of 30,000/. ! With Ivory Ticket a Prize ! forming the unequalled aggregate of Three Hundred and Eighty-nine Thousand Pounds I ALL TO 13E DECIDED IN ONE DAY, NEXT WEDNESDAY, 18th inst., Heiug the Lao of all Lotteries in this Kingdom. Tickets and Shares are Selling by HAZARD and Co., Cou lactnr; Royal Exch ange Gate 26, Cornhill ; and 324, Oxford eeet,_ w h o so l d in One Lottery, All the Prizes of 30,000/. ! aod 20,0in0g0/a. short Period, Nine P rites of 30,000/. ! 28,000/. ! and and in t he L.......... Ist Marelt last, ............... of 20,000/. ! eABINET-MAKERS' SOCIETY-7 UON C ., 4 1 ) -CABINET and UPHOLSTERY, at the 1, , O s N . clea,,,,,i•Posprony for the CABINET-MAKERS 0 0, 71 , ', being the only real one now existing in London , A N Pi n e°l.4 e l ' of LEADENHALL-STREET, opposite._ Pp, R em an d which has been established upwards of Six ,he T' Mone and no Abatement. 7 1 il e g a a r . t e . „., _ trustees and Committee resp ectfully inform the Nobility , 4"4 tientry, the* they still conduct' the ab ove . Establishment for the Benefit of industrioo large f by offearing their Manufactured Articles in the and ingenious Mechanics (who have Cabinet Line of the hest worktiu mithin and h per than by any House in London, no other profit hei4ic - req uired th an to satisfy the warehouse rent and incidental ex po wi ng constant employme n t to enable them to support their families, the number of whom appear by satisfied with the Rooks of the last Quarterly Meeting to be 148. From the great patronage the Committee have received, they are in hopes of increasing that number. The following is a Specimen of the Low Prices a s k e d ; all (l oods warr an t e d : '. e. Te e feet Mahogany B e d s t ea d, f our-post 4 10 4. 0 Tent ditto . _ - 16 0 .t otdered M attress to fit - - 11 o ilt othOliatly Draw ere w ith so lid en d s - 35 0 .ttc.ifilit Mahogany Chairs - - 610 0 )plli Pembroke Table -, 2 0 0 ',. . -- !" I ller Bed free from dust aad smell, * from .£2 12 0 to 8 6 0 4 A 7l ,ing-t9Oi n Sofa, f rom £5 50to 7 I' olt,-. stead .." - - 35 0 Itany Horse-Hair Sofa - - 610 0 upwards 4 , at c ptity of P a p er H ang i ngs f or Bed, Dining, and Drawing 440nti Inea ta _ ' at nearly Ha lf -p rice. The Tr a d e w ill fi n d • i t wor th th e i r o n. f t Ito% Furnished at a few days' notice, and Apartments in a Fur de w free of expenoe except the matting. COMMITTEE. T. Corder IJ. Wilson IJ. Cart er ~.„ I llit,„.Raster IJ. Unett IW. Wagh orn 141 ELL, Agent. J. HA W. Secr e t ary thein , 1114t 1CA.1 , / INTELLECT.—We are told that a man i k ;: k ? count y of ' Hampshi re , over 40 years o f age, tC e d of his neighbour a year or two since, whether trim s4gr e'.G . Yi6ll' tile name of a man or o f a c i ty !-- P azeite, American Paper. -'• , . "0 4,11:,, ~. I.i. .7 ~,.,. ''' l 4 l v, " . .i. ‘-1- . , : - 0 0 Tt t , -t, , !.... ' 4 :I ' '..,' Ne ..1 _. .....„ 4, ,` 4 Nt"! 4- '! / , , .: .' ( ~ - 8. : twitx . ~ :' , ..N.:'''''' . .,4 • ; - ''''`..'"-- 7 ' Crt , - - , - , -0 1 , , _,, %,: tiNt s'6 '-- str • , ~ ...-^ ~....„ - ..,,,.., .. ~, A r yi 1-4 4 ~ - '.7r, , lb • , . es • ~i - 4 4 -' '; , '.. , ' ~. .5 ..v. v , - ' 1:3 v, t. ~,.. ~ ~.. (.o -To - g o. , ~., k .. FRIDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 13, 1826. Professor Hansteen, of Christiana, celebrated for his researches on Magnetism, has lately published the results of further investigations of considerable interest. He had formerly pointed out, that (distinct from the variation in the direction of the needle) there exists a considerable variation at different times and places in the intensity of the earth's magnetic influence. His recent observations tend to spew that the intensity is more constant during the summer than during the winter. Also, that at present the intensity is upon the whole decreasing :—and that the decrease is greater in the northerly and easterly parts of Europe, than in the southern and western. He ascribes these phe• nomena to a variation in the position of the magnetic pole in Siberia, towards the east. Dr. Brewster pointed out some time since the curi ous fact, that small distant luminous bodies, if viewed obliquely, that is, with the eye directed straight to wards some neighbouring object, will alternately appear and disappear ; and that sometimes, objeots which are so faint as to be invisible by direct vision, become per ceptible when the eye is directed obliquely. This was fully experienced by Messrs. Herschel and South, in their observations on double stars : a very minute star often becoming visible only by directing the eye to a different part of the field ; the same effect has also been verified by others. Our object in alluding to this point at present is, to mention, that upon this principle, an ingenious writer in the lately published Number of the Edinburgh Journal of Science, has attempted, and we think sa tisfactorily, to account for the fact sa w ell k nown to every one who has at any time amused himself with star-gazing, that the stars appear more numerous when cursorily looked at, than when the eye is attentively fixed on any particular point of the heavens. This has been in all popular books ascribed to the confu sion produced on the eye by the glare of light, or some such cause of deception. But, according to this ex planation, the number of stars seen, is actually re duced when the eye is attentively fixed on any one point. " The stars seen," says this writer, "in a hasty view of the heavens, are chiefly observed by oblique vision, and the number visible to the naked eye is actually increased." He directs the attention of his readers to the beautiful group of the Pleiades ; in looking at which, first obliquely, and then directly, an irresistible conviction of the truth of what he advances will be afforded.---(See Edinburgh Journal of Science, No. x. p. 233.) DREADFUL AVALANCHE. (From the American Papers.) trous avalanche at th e Wh ite Mounta i ns , . The following i s a more particular account of the disas in New Hamp shire than we have before seen. It is copied from the Intelligeneer, published at Haverhill, New Hampshire : NoTen OF THE WHITE MOUNTAINS.—WE have been informed, by a company of gentlemen from New York, on their return to this town, from an excursion to the White Mountains, last Monday (28th ult.), there was one of the moat tremendous scenes presented that has ever occurred in this country, connected with circumstances of calamity beyond the power of description. One of our informants says this scene beggars all description. In addition to all the bridges in the vicinity of the mountains, being swept away by the sudden rise of the streams, and which also ruined most of the fine meadow hinds of Mr. Ethan Craw ford, who lives four miles west of the Notch, by burying these meadows deep in sand and rocks, and trees ; there was a tremendous slide of earth and rocks, &c. or, as it is called in Switzerland, where these occurrences are not un frequent, avalanche, which has so filled, or rather buried the Notch road, that it is doubted if it min ever be made passable again. But what renders this occurrence the more awful is, that Mr. Willey, his wife, five children, two men and a girl residing with him, nine in number, are pro bably all buried beneath this mass. Mr. Willey's barn was destroyed, but his house was not injured, although within a few rods of the bars. The house, furniture, &c. &c. all appeared in the same order as if the inmates of it had suddenly left it, leaving in the house many articles of clothing which they ordinarily wore. Mr. Willey kept a comfortable little tavern, called the "Notch House," about six miles from the younger Mr. Crawford, about half way between that and the elder Mr. Crawford's. There was a slide or avalanche of earth and rocks on the mountain immediately south of Mr. Willey, about two months since, which passed on to, and destroyed a piece of the road, within fifteen or twenty rods of Mr. Willey's. This hap pened in the day time, and greatly alarmed Mr. Willey and his family ; so much so, that he began to make pre parations for flight with his family ; but the terror of the scene was of few minutes' duration, and all was still before he was ready to depart. lie and his family remained till that dark and awful night of the 28th of August, to meet a fate that chills the blood of the living to contemplate. The avalanche, two months since, covered about an acre of ground, with rocks of many tons weight, with earth and trees in a confused mass. The late avalanche, of 28th August, is said to have co vered all the land Mr. Willey owned, fit for improvement, which consisted of thirty or forty acres of meadow, its the Saco river, that passed near his house. These are a few of the facts we have had from gentle men lately returned from the mountains. ANOTHER ACCOUNT. -- The whole Willey family, with two hired men, making nine in number, perished by an avalanche, which slid from the west aide of the Gap of the White Mountains, on the night of the 28th ult. The next day, several hundreds of people assembled, and the bodies of Mr. and Mr. Willey and Mr. Allen were found, about 50 rods from the house, in the meadow, amid drift wood, naked, bruised, and disfigured. The body of Mr. Willey was found about 30 feet from those of Mrs. Willey and Mr. Allen. One of the hands of Allen was clenched round a. small tree. The Willey family had probably, after the rain had ceased, retired to rest ; but awakened by the crash of the ban) they rushed out of doors, and while flying for the Camp (which Mr. Willey, after the elide of the 18th June last, had built as a place of refuge), in the extreme dirk ness, they ran directly into one of the avalanches, and were swept into the flood below, to instant destruction. Theatres were introduced into ancient Rome from Greece, and it appears, made " their first appearance" about 400 years after the . building of the city. It is said that they owe their introduction to the religious devotion of the Romans, who in a time of public sick ness deemed it the best way of appeasing the'anger of their Gods to invent some new games for their honour. The plays performed by the Romans were called Pia nipedes, or pantomimes, because the players entered pianis pedidus, barefooted ; Attellana, or Satires, from a city called Attella, in Campania, where they were often acted ; and Satires by the Greeks, for a reason in the first instance not here explainable, and because in these plays the vices of the age were censured ; that kind of composition was called a Satire, Satira mordax fait et salsum genus oarminis ; Prwtextatte, (and by the Greeks Tragedin) because the actors for the most part wore the Roman Robe so denominated. The word Tragedy is a compound of 7ragos, a goat, and ode, ode, because a goat was presented to the actors as a remu neration ; Tabernarite (and by the Greeks Conifedim) because they were performed in barns and out houses. The word Coma-life is derived from Kornai, villages, and ode, ode, because they were acted by strolling players in villages.. The word scene is from the Greek word Skia, a shadow, because plays were first acted by shepherds in the shady places, made by bending down, the boughs of trees, and thus forming an arbour. The Roman Theatres consisted of the Proscenium, which appears to have been the dressing-rooms of the performers, although sometimes the stage itself, is un derstood by that term, but Pulpit= is the most pro per Latin expression for the stage. The Pu/piturn, and the &ewe. These scenes were of two kinds, Versatilem and Ductilem. The first were scenes that presented two sides, and were made to turn upon a pivot, fixed into the floor of the stage, so that a change of scene was effected by simply turning them round. The second were scenes that slid backward and for ward, and produced a change in that way. Now, because the shepherds who were the first who invented dialogues, never gave more than one dialogue at a time, it seems not improbable, that the division of the acts of a play into scenes, took its origin from this cir cumstance. Moreover, these scenes were adapted to the nature of the representation about to be given. Thus, if a tragedy was to be performed, the . scenes represented a stately palace, or a noble street, the portico of a temple, or such like. On these occasions, the appearance of columns appears to have bee n in dispensable. At the ac ti ng o f a Comedy, on the con trary, the scene was laid in the country, and of course, therefore, the scenes themselves were paint ed to iepresent cottages and private dwellings, gardens, and other ruralities ; hut when the at tellanz were performed, the stage gave the appear ance of woods, foi mains, and rivulets, moun tains, cataracts, or shady groves. Each species of scenery was designated by a particular title, d escr ipti ve of its use. The fir s t was called Tragicum, the second Comicum, and the third Sallfricunt. The theatre itself ai contradistinguished from the stage, was in the first instance, and for long after, formed without seats, as is even now practised in sonic parts of the French Theatres ; and the senators, gentlemen, and com monalty, were mixed in one mass together. It is, however, to be observed, that attending stage plays was on their first introduction, deemed vulgar and gentlemanly, but as that feeling wore off, seats were placed for the accommodation of the audience, and divided off into three parts, according to the grade of society , to which they were assigned. In order to pre vent the seats set apart for the Roman gentleman, being occupied by the common people, the Roscian law awarded a punishment (but of what kind does not appear), against intruders, and moreover, declared him to be a Roman gentleman, who was worth a sum equal to about 3,1251. English. The seats the most remote front the stage were called popularia, and the nearest the orchestra, the middle space was named equestria. The common people of Rome occupied the first, the Senators the second, and the third was devoted to the Roman knights and gentlemen. The orchestra, where the Senators sat, was also allotted as the station of the chorus of ancient plays, and whose duties were in fact some-, What like those of our musical bands that occupy that portion of our modern theatres which retain this name, viz. to amuse the audience between the' acts. In order to chew that there was nothing parti cularly anomalous in the uses to which the orchestra. was so applied, it is only necessary to say, that the pits of the French Theatres are divided into two parts, viz, the parquet and parterre, the latter having no seats, and the former having these accommodations for the musicians, and such persons as are willing to pay the same price as is demanded for admission to the boxes ; and if space allowed, the deriva tion of the word parterre might here be given. The whole building was in shape like a wedge, with the sharper point taken off, and hence was cuneus, a term have t w w li f i o c r l e i c s i ‘ e s s is ign s a o t i e n d et x im , e p s op g l i t si a e r n ia to that portion we . All the Roman Tragedies and Comedies were formed on certain strict rules, and it would seem, from, the si milarity observable in modern Comedies and Tragedies with those of ancient Rome, that these rules have lad three parts, called The trades wa com positions.ysbeer), R , flayspomeriniiiittedto gad draniatical p r i n iarier, OCCeSSOriW, and circions tallies, or parts }principal,, accessary, and circumstanees, die t wo latter being used more for beautifying and adorning than for any absolute necessity. The parts principal are f our viz. Protasis; Epitasis , Catastasa, and Catastrophe, anc although it was by no mean s n e c e ssary that they should a ppear in any given act of the play, yet th e y must :)nandsuaecocercs accessary and y arse also uccessfioou7 but one three o f th em part or o th er. 1' he e peculiar to Comedy, viz, Prologus, A rgunten a turn, Mimus, and Chorus, the rut only being applicable to Tragedy. It is hardly possible to enter into an explanation of all these, The chorus and mimus, however, deserve a few words. The minus was the clown or fool of the play, and whoseduty was t o provoke laughter much in the same way as our modern clowns now do, excepting, indeed, that they, did not scruple to quiz the manners of the court and imitate the peculiarities of th e h igher classes. Of SURVEY OF IRELAND. TO THE EDITOR. SIR-A correspondent having seen in' the papers a statement of difficulties encountered by those engaged on the Trigonometrical Survey of Ireland, through the medium of your useful Paper, begs leave to ask those whom it may 'Concern, why September was chosen for commei icing observations,and the wliole ofso remarkably fine and clear a summer as the last lost ? Is it not also very desirable under the present wants of the country, in all cases to separate the places and salaries of the civil from the 'military department ? for if hereditary placemen, or those connected with characters high in office are appointed (as is th e c a s e ) t o emp l oyments in the civil department with large salaries, and the country in consequence is to be deprived of their mili tary services, surely in this time of distress the amount of their military pay should cease ; as when they have these appointments they are no longer called on mili tary duty, and their pay then becomes a complete sinecure. OBSERVER. KILKENNY FEVER HOSPITAL. State of the Kilkenny Fever Hospital from the Ist to the Stith of Sept. 1826. Patients in Hospital, let Sept. Since admitted 68 112 -ISO 72 Discharged Cured Died of Dysentery lO 3 • of Fever Remaining in Fever Convalescent 65 30 -180 Remaining in Hospital, 95. Of the persons who died of fever, one, an old woman, was admitted unable to swallow, she died in a few hours after her admission. Another, also an old woman, came into the house in a dying state, and lived for two days only. THOMAS PACK, Surgeon. WATERFORD F] State of the House for the t In the House, Ist Sept 44 Admitted in Sept. ,VER HOSPITAL. lonth of September. 1826 Dioniesed cured l3l Died In fever Convalescent 241 1 241 Two of the fatal cases noted above were admitted in It hopeless state, and only survived their removal a few days. The type of the fever has not as yet acquired any additional malignancy of character, though the increasin g number of applications for admission has obliged us t o open two wards in the Leper Hospital, for the recep tion of fever patients. Dysentery has supervened in a few cases. Oct. 1, 1826. GtORGE WysE m D Signed on behalf of the Regulating Committee, EDWARD COURTENAY, Chairman. ( Frieman's Journal.) LANGUAGES.--111. Frederick Aderburgh, Coun sellor to the late Emperor of Russia, rec k one d t h e number of languages and dialects in th e wor ld to b e 3,064. In Asia, 937 ; in Europe, 587 ; in Af r i ca , 276 ; and in America, 1,264. SMoKY CHIMNEYS.- - Ii is said upon scientific au thority, that a wire gauze front, fitted over the fire place, of about 22 wires to the inch, will, in most PhilosophyScukv has cases, effect the cure of Smoky Chimneys. many x TiNc• ths bestowed upon mankind, in the present time, may justly be men tioned the total extinction of sea scurvy as a security ri°N improvements oir which S EA to navigation, and to the safety of our naval bulwark. This great national benefit was effected by the mea sures planned by Dr. Trotter in 1795; when physician to the fleet, under the command of the late Earl Howe. The naval hospitals were all new modelled at the same time by the same physician; but since the scurvy' was subdued, these hospitals have been compa ratively empty. Our merchant ships have only to fol low the exampl e o f t h e N av y, in preventing scurvy among the seamen, for of all diseases this is the most' dreadful to seafaring people ; and unless the means of relief are carried to sea, the consequences are incal culable. No leSs than 100,000 human lives are said to have been saved during the late war, by the extinc tion of this malady._ Glasgote Courier. / No. 10,637. SCIENTIFIC IN'! ELLIGENCE. COMBS ABBEY. This venerable mansion has not been the residence of any branch of the Craven Family, since the funeral of the late Earl, whose death occurred early in 1825, in the Isle of Wight. His Lordship's remai►►s were conveyed thence to Combe Abbey for interment ; and on that occasion the tears of a numerous tenantry, kept pace with those of the deeply-afflicted family.---A re newal of these testimonials of sensibility and sincere sorrow are now fast approaching, as in the course of the present week the amiable Countess will visit the Abbey in company with her eldest son, the present Earl, who has attained his 17th year : The Coun tess's daughter, who is never separated from her ma ternal care, will also he present. This proceeding will be as quiet and unceremonious as possible ; and if the young Earl should be met by Iris excellent uncle, who is - the leading Trustee under the will of the late Earl, and a few of the neighbouring Gentle men, those friends, will form the extent of the assem blage. The architectural additions which the late Lord Craven had superintended for some years pre vious to his death, were immediately. after that event ordered to be stopped, and they will not be resumed during the Earl's minority ;---but they will he minute ly inspected and subject to grave consideration betbre they are further advanced. A professor of the fine arts, who recently visitedthe great gallery at Combe Abbey, assures us, that the marble bust of the Princess Sophia, the highly revered source of the Brunswick Line, is, in all its lineaments and features, a most striking likeness of our late favourite Princess Charlotte. Its situation is near the bust of the interesting Queen of Bohemia, who tos aitLlsyinofother of Sophia, and who on the death of the King, her husband, after long experiencing the William Earl of Craven, at Combe So u !leY, . was privately married to him. The Princess gracious S ove pma in eon during the Abbey. The similitude was frequently a guest at the period of the • 'no similitude spoken of . struck our present eigo, when he visited Combe Abbey Regency. T 1 we* HE GREEK """VVe can hardly conjecture what message the Grand if his Holiness should declare in favour of the Greeks; but Mahomet the Great sent to Pope Pius 11., who assisted the Greeks against the Turks, observing that he greatly wondered the Romans should make war gainst him, since th ey h ad both the same origin, a and were engaged in honou r to revenge the death of their countryman, Hector, upon their common enemy the Greeks. gis Ann, PRICE 7D. ROMAN THEATRES AND PLAYS. cnotus we shall speak below. The circumstances were also divided into four parts common to both species of compositions, viz. Titulus, Cantus, Sabah*, and Apparatus, viz. the title,Qf the play, the music, the dancing, and the scenery. The difference between Tragedy and Comedy was much as now, except that the interest of the tonna was greatly enhanced by the fact that. it was - for the most part founded in truth, and was confined entirely to Kings, Princes, and Noblemen. Another distinction is that well known one of the Cothurni and the Socci, and therefore needs no further comment. Every play was, according to Horace, to corteist of not more or less than five acts; and moretwir, the Romans deemed it improper to place'ruore than three persons on the stage at once. Between revery settle chorus appeared, which might have one or , many speakers, and these speakers were Male or female, according as the object of their . song was limas or female. The song always was ' pertinent t* so much of the play as was passed, or covertly bal• mated what was to follow. The introduction of acts was an invention, in order that the' attention 'of the audience might not be wearied by incessant **ra tion ; and between them the chorus appeared, and sometimes hunting, fencing, and other kinds of sport, were then interposed. These interludes ware termed Diludia. All these kinds of plays were called Pal liatce, when acted after the Grecian manner, and-To gatce, when done after the Roman manner. Now, supposing the Theatre filled, and the actors on the stage, if the matter performed was particularly pleasing to the audience, they expressed their feelings by excLiming ,Rene,' recte, pulchre, and if carried to a very great extent, they were then said Fravere tub. sellia, in allusion to which expression Virgil has this line— Et eantu venire rumpunt lama cicada, to i►►timate the noise made by a large assembly of grass hoppers. In the absence of positive information, we may conclude that their disapprobation was expressed by hissing and groaning, and other means applicable to the object of their warfare ; and on this occasion the teen, frangere subsellia might perhaps with more truth be applied. NOTICES OF THE CLANS. THE MASERS. In spite of the lofty pretensions which the High. landers arrogate to themselves, to a pure Celtic origin, there is scarcelya name of any eminence among the Clans, but refutes the assertion. " The Grants," of whom we lust treated, bear the indelible stamp of Norman ancestry. And the azure field of fmiseit marks out the " Frasers" as a branch from the same root. No truth can be clearer than that Teutonic Barons effected settle ments, and atchieved conquests in the Highlands; Whilst the era of these event s ma y generally be traced with Much certainty, than the traditionary tales of our countrymen will allow. The family of Fraser make a distinguished figure in our national annals in very remote ages in East Lothi an and Peebles-shire; a n d rose to em inent luitre as Lords of Oliver Castle. This branch were the head of the name, and its Chiefs were High Sheriffs of the County of Tweed dale, as early as the reign of Malcolm IV. styled the Maiden ; though in a donation of his Majesty to the Abbey of Kelso, there is this remarkable clause " Pratcipio etilllll " ut prtedicta ecelesia de Inverlattian in qua prim* mete " corpus filii mei post o bit um suum quievit." Sir Gilbert Fraser was the proprietor of the extensive domains of Oliver Castle in the reigns of Alexander IL and 111. He was the father of three eminent sons : Sir Simon—one of the arbiters for determining the Bailors succession to the throne ; Sir Andrew of Caithness, dominus Touch,and Sheriff of Stirling; and William , of St. Andrew's and Chancellor of the Kingdom. Sir Simon was the father of that gallant patriot of the same name, the friend and companion of Wallet* and Bruce, and doomed like the first to expiate his attachment to liberty on the block, A.D. 1306. In him perished tlra direct male line of the ancient 'Primers : his deughtertme. ceding to his mates. Sir Andrew, hie uncle,now became the head of the family ; an d we fi nd him settled in Caith ness (a district then included in Inverness-Shire) in 1206. From him the family of Lovat deduce their direct descent, through his eldest son Simon, who married M argaret , one of the heiresses o f the Earldom of Caithness; and froth the latter they also derive their patronyniic of " Mae. shimi." This Simon had a brother Sir Alexander, (Cham berlain of Scotland) who married the Princess Mary Binee about 1316, and whose succession terminated in a female. It is from an inattention to the era and characteristics this Knight, that the disputed precedency of the Lovat and Saltoun Families hay its source. We shall endearonr to condense in as few words as possible, a question which ha. been already put at rest by legal proofs, in a late pub lication.—Anderson's Ilidory of Fraser*, 38, 39. The Frasers, of Philorth, ,claiin as their ancestor Alex ander Fraser, of Cowie and Durris, whom they assume to hare been Sir Alexander the Chamberlain, and the brother of Sir Simon the patriot, executed in 1306; unfortunately for this theory, the very authority on which it is Wilt— (Barbour's Bruce) makes it clear that " Sir Alexander Fraser" and his " brother Simon " were alive in 1308, at the battle of Inverury ; and consequently this " Simon " and the Knight of the tame name, must have been dif f erent persons. This fact is further proved by a legal document in the possession of Lord Arbuthnot. In the next place, --iris said Sir Alexander Fraser, the Chamberlain, had a son William, who was th e i mme di ate progenitorof this spectable branch of the Fraser.. Here again we are mot by the fact, that Sir Alexander's succession terminated in a female before 1355, (Reg. Meg. Sig.); and that he was only married to the Princess Mary (who died before 1324) in 1316. Long before this period, Alexander Frazier, of Collie and Dorris, was dead ; for William Piasters the son of the lat e Alexander Fraser " swore fetiltY to Edward I.; at Ferael, contiguous to the quarter where the family estates lay, on reth July 1296; and he succeeded his father in the properties of Collie and Dorris, as maybe seen by the grant to him, in Robertson's Index, of thee* lands, where it is added,—" quilk thanedom of C o lli e was Alexander Fraser his father's." Here it cannot escape observation, that Alexander of C o lli e i s not even after his death termed a Knight; a title which it has been legally proved in the abovenientioned work, Sir Alexander the Chamberlain held from 1308 to 1332, when he was killed; whilst it is impossible to ['bow he ever possessed the estate of Collie or Cowie. Thus, the Frasers of Philorth are unhookedfrom the main or even collateral Oliver Castle lies ; whilst the Lovuts are directly descended of the , not branch after the Great Sir Simon Fraser the pat4o.t —and es suc h are t h e head of the name. That thefrWri, of Philo r th are o f most respectable lineage, cett*l,„" doubted ; b ut w h en they may have sprung from ,t he Fraser, of the South, is buried in the darkness of 6tiiitetttre. That the above Sir Alexander, Ora Krnglrt, .4!". younger th an hi s b rother SiMon i t d e m o nstrated 'by h is succeeding his father in the ineonsideloble estate of Touch in Stirling, whil st t h e t h e res t dormant in the north fell to Simon. Of the Ho use o f Lore shell say nothing. The world are already in po s sessi on of •accidents,," of partaken o f t h e moving 7 o e n ol their'intnalia , Thar appear to have etty much the same ratio as other t d l y ie nas ho t v i / t a x . Lei is)li:d. political chariot, in tirs but we derive at least one lesson fribm the 1717 an d s; f thankfulness for Hying at a period when his life,—tliar, u • n a lik e ' to poor and to rich, of hearing of their noted Lord of despot ts eau wantonly sport with the eedne petty re . 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